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Impressionism - Coggle Diagram
Impressionism
qualities
light & bright colors
white-coated canvas
conventional = dark
bold color combinations
shocking
complementary colors
eg. red & green
stand out more
simple composition
landscapes
small figures in the foreground
brushstrokes
X blended a lot
visible brushstrokes
impermanence
to capture a fleeting moment
"Arabesque" by Edgar Degas
edge of the skirt cut off
intentions
"impressionist"
insult
unpolished, unfinished, unprofessional
loose and imprecise
wanted to be different from conventional art
Degas
Monet
Pissarro
Renoir
influenced artists later
theories
techniques
What?
art movement
started in France
late 1800s
radical
different from others
everyday life
X history
X mythology
X idealized beauty
painted what they saw
outdoor
to capture nature directly
to look at the changing light
Monet